Special Agent Rebirth: The Omnipotent Goddess of Quick Transmigration
Chapter 348 - 343 Internet Match: Beauty Like Jade (8) First Watch

Chapter 348: 343 Internet Match: Beauty Like Jade (8) First Watch

The one who flirts first is deemed cheap.

Ye Ruxue was too confident, provoking Ye Shaohua not once, not twice, but repeatedly.

Yet now, she was completely dumbfounded.

How is this possible! Could her memory be playing tricks on her? Ye Shaohua clearly hadn’t touched the piano in eleven years!

How could someone who hasn’t played the piano in eleven years still play so fluidly?!

This is just too damn unscientific!

Xun Peipei and Ye Ming, along with a few others, were also caught off guard. They had all braced themselves for the scornful stares of others, but they hadn’t expected to see this other side of Ye Shaohua.

Ye Shaohua was nothing like what they had imagined.

Grandfather Ye stood aside, looking a bit intrigued as Ye Shaohua struck up a conversation with Uncle Li.

The two talked about professional matters, and the people nearby couldn’t even get a word in.

"You must have studied the piano for quite a few years, child. You have perseverance," Uncle Li said, surprised as he looked at Ye Shaohua, then heaped a lot of praise on Ye Ming.

He seldom met young people with talent who were also willing to put in the effort these days.

Ye Shaohua smiled slightly and pursed her lips, "Just two or three years, I guess."

Uncle Li: "..."

He hadn’t expected that he, a nationally renowned pianist, would one day be faced with the embarrassment of his own words proving him wrong.

If it were anyone else, Uncle Li definitely wouldn’t believe it.

But it was Ye Shaohua who said it, and Uncle Li also noticed that Ye Shaohua’s hands were fair and delicate.

Dedicated and hardworking pianists usually develop thin calluses on their fingertips.

The skin ridges here are a bit thicker than elsewhere and won’t affect the overall beauty of the hand but can still be discerned.

However, Ye Shaohua had none.

The guests all had discerning eyes, and they were all there today for Grandfather Ye.

It was obvious to them who Grandfather Ye favored more.

For the first time in Ye Shaohua’s presence, Ye Ruxue was completely ignored.

Grandfather Ye, while looking at Ye Shaohua, nearly dropped the glass of spirits in his hand. Ye Shaohua’s eyes narrowed, and she instinctively reached out to catch his glass steadily.

After catching it, she froze.

"Shaohua, your movements are so decisive. Have you trained before?" Many of the attendees were military men, whose training in the forces was very practical.

Yet, watching the agile moment of Ye Shaohua catching the glass, they were quite surprised.

Such quick reflexes and nimble hands were rare even among the people in the military.

Mr. Yun watched Ye Shaohua with astonishment.

Ye Shaohua spoke nonchalantly, "Luck, I’m not usually like this."

After a grandiose and tumultuous banquet, those who had to leave departed.

Mr. Yun had a few matters to discuss alone with Grandfather Ye.

Following Grandfather Ye upstairs.

Before the two ascended the stairs, Ye Rui and Ye Ruxue both brought out the gifts they had prepared for Grandfather Ye.

Remembering her own gift for Grandfather Ye, Ye Shaohua immediately ran back to her room "thump, thump, thump," and with a clink placed a crudely made celadon tea cup on the table.

"Grandfather, I bought this for you to drink tea with," Ye Shaohua said, and then added another word, "Gift."

The brows of Ye Rui and Ye Ming, which had just relaxed, furrowed once again.

Compared to the gifts from Ye Rui and Ye Ruxue, Ye Shaohua’s was simply unseemly.

Ye Rui had given a set of the Four Treasures of the Study, and Ye Ruxue was even more thoughtful, knowing that Grandfather Ye liked to drink tea, she specially commissioned a set of valuable porcelain from a modern master for him.

Seeing the gift from Ye Shaohua, Ye Ruxue’s gloomy expression lightened somewhat, "Grandfather, I used my prize money to buy this for you."

Ye Ruxue’s allowances were always ample, and in so many years, she had won about a hundred thousand yuan from piano competitions and scholarships.

She had carefully selected this gift set.

However, compared to the valuable porcelain she presented, Grandfather Ye clearly preferred the broken tea cup from Ye Shaohua.

"Butler, put this away, I will use this tea cup from now on," Grandfather Ye specifically handed his cup over to the butler and added one more instruction, "Make sure not to break it for me."

With that one line, Ye Ruxue’s gaze darkened again.

He would rather favor a broken tea cup; who knows from which trash heap Ye Shaohua picked it up!

Grandfather Ye, delighted, went to the study with Mr. Yun.

Mr. Yun contemplated thoughtfully as he watched the broken tea cup being carried away by the butler.

Downstairs, Xun Peipei, as the mistress of the house, was conversing with Mrs. Yun.

"Madam, the soup is ready." It was at this moment that a servant came over carrying two bowls of soup.

Xun Peipei immediately stood up and personally took one of the bowls to Ye Shaohua, "Shaohua, drink the soup quickly."

As she spoke, she looked amiably at Mrs. Yun, "This child, Shaohua, I’ve always treated her as my own. This is specially prepared for young girls by a doctor; it’s good for a young woman’s health. Both Shaohua and Ruxue have one."

Ye Shaohua looked at the bowl of medicine.

Her eyes narrowed slightly.

This was the medicinal soup that the original owner had been drinking incessantly since childhood.

She had been wondering why the original owner suddenly started gaining weight from the age of eight, bulking up to the point of being unpleasant to look at. She remembered that the original owner was ridiculed for being overweight as a child and had tried to lose weight.

But she had never been successful.

With this in mind, Ye Shaohua took the medicine, but instead of drinking, she just brought it to her nose and sniffed it.

Her expression instantly cooled down.

"When did you learn to play the piano?" Ye Ruxue condescended to speak to Ye Shaohua for the first time, placing her own bowl on the table.

Ye Shaohua also put the bowl down, then picked it up again.

At the question, she cast a faint glance at Ye Ruxue, "I didn’t practice; it’s innate."

After saying this, she didn’t look at Ye Ruxue again.

She just frowned slightly, "I’m not drinking the soup; I’m on a diet."

"How can you not drink it?" said Xun Peipei, immediately intervening. Perhaps realizing her own tone was too excited, she softened her voice, "Shaohua, there’s no oil or anything in this soup. It’s just to regulate your menstruation and won’t make you gain weight."

"Oh," Ye Shaohua replied. As if she had an epiphany, she continued to drink.

Seeing that Ye Shaohua was about to finish, Xun Peipei finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Ye Ruxue, on the other hand, seeing that Ye Shaohua ignored her, finished the soup in one go and angrily left the place to go to her room upstairs.

Mrs. Yun found this family a bit strange.

After Mr. Yun finished his conversation with the old Master, they were escorted out by Ye Ming.

Upon seeing Ye Shaohua’s retreating figure, Mr. Yun suddenly said, "This girl, she’s quite interesting."

Hearing Mr. Yun praising Ye Shaohua, Mrs. Yun found it odd, "Weren’t you a bit unwilling to come here? What’s so interesting now?"

Why did he seem to be complimenting her now?

"Just that move when she caught the Master’s wine glass, I couldn’t do it," Mr. Yun narrowed his eyes, "And, did you recognize the tea cup that Shaohua gave to the Master just now?"